"The Middle East-North Africa region is predominantly Muslim, but as of 2010, only one-in-five Muslims lived in that part of the world."
Pew Research Center Study
Since I'm dealing with statistics, and Pew studies for that matter, I guess I'll keep going. In the popular imagination Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims, but, of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Only about twenty percent of the world's Muslim population live in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Actually, almost two-thirds (61.7%) off all Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific area, featuring Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. If you look out towards 2050 the percentage of Muslims living in MENA is not really going to change much, going from 19.8% to 20.0%. The numbers for Asia-Pacific will actually drop, from 61.7% in 2010 down to 52.8%. The biggest jump will be in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the percentage of the world's Muslims will increase from 15.5% to 24.3%. The other numbers are pretty small and aren't moving much, with Europe dropping slightly from 2.7% to 2.6% and North America increasing from .2% to .4%. Latin America and the Caribbean will remain at less than .1%. Again, these are percentages of the total global Muslim population. For example, in North America the numbers will increase from around 1% to a little less than 2% of the total North American population.
Pew Research Center Study
Since I'm dealing with statistics, and Pew studies for that matter, I guess I'll keep going. In the popular imagination Muslims are Arabs and Arabs are Muslims, but, of course, nothing could be further from the truth. Only about twenty percent of the world's Muslim population live in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Actually, almost two-thirds (61.7%) off all Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific area, featuring Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. If you look out towards 2050 the percentage of Muslims living in MENA is not really going to change much, going from 19.8% to 20.0%. The numbers for Asia-Pacific will actually drop, from 61.7% in 2010 down to 52.8%. The biggest jump will be in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the percentage of the world's Muslims will increase from 15.5% to 24.3%. The other numbers are pretty small and aren't moving much, with Europe dropping slightly from 2.7% to 2.6% and North America increasing from .2% to .4%. Latin America and the Caribbean will remain at less than .1%. Again, these are percentages of the total global Muslim population. For example, in North America the numbers will increase from around 1% to a little less than 2% of the total North American population.
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